Bale is considered the best Batman so far by many fans, including his co-star Oldman, who reckons Affleck has quite a job on his hands. Oldman played Commissioner Gordon in Christopher Nolan’s much-loved Batman trilogy.

‘He’s got a hard cowl to climb into because I thought Christian had made such a signature on it. But Ben is a wonderful actor, so I’m intrigued to see what he does’ he told E! Online, adding: ‘Ben will do fine. I think he’ll do fine.’

The Argo star and Cavill will be joined in the film by Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman, Jeremy Irons as Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred and Jesse Eisenberg as Superman’s arch enemy Lex Luthor.